samsung 2TB hard drive issue

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Hey guys need some help please.
Samsung 2TB drive with all my media on keeps clicking and is unable to read at certain places.
How long is the guarantee on these drives and where would one take it to be replaced? Also is there anyway to fix this?
Thanks
 
3 years I think.

I have one, but I wouldn't really trust it after experiencing such. I'd say you should back up and RMA. Where'd you buy it?
 
Just out of interest, how old is this HDD? I want to buy one but all I have ever bought is Western Digital and I have never ever had issues. Had my 200GB for like 10 years now and it is STILL running my OS's.
 
I've had 2 WD's die on me within a week before. It's all down to luck I've learned. I've also had 2 seagates fail, but none of my 4 samsungs have yet.

I remember I thought 2 of my 2TB seagates were going, they kept disappearing, upped the power supply and since then, they've been flawless
 
robdutchmonkey said:
I've had 2 WD's die on me within a week before. It's all down to luck I've learned. I've also had 2 seagates fail, but none of my 4 samsungs have yet.

I remember I thought 2 of my 2TB seagates were going, they kept disappearing, upped the power supply and since then, they've been flawless
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Spot on. Luck of the draw. No brands are inferior to others. About the only good thing WD offers is 5yr warranty on their Black Editions.
 
Well, so far so good with WD :) 200GB is like ancient. 500GB is abut half as ancient and the 1TB is quite new :) all still va vooming. *touch wood*
 
robdutchmonkey said:
It's all down to luck I've learned.
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I agree completely. Personally I've never had WD fail on me and many Seagate drives fail on me. But at the same time, my friends have had different experiences. As a whole, when comparing my experience with that of all my friends and family (IE. real life people not some BS spouted on a forum), I feel failure rates among drives are pretty much equal. I buy based on merit, my NAS runs Seagate because they are cheap (from Esquire), my PC runs WD because they are quiet (Green Power drives) and my sisters computer runs Samsung because they were on special. None have failed yet (although one of the Seagates is showing some troubling SMART data, namely End-to-End_errors, I'll still buy Seagate in the future however).
 
Agreed, if there's anything free that will read the drive then it's GNU ddrescue. Do it before the drive fails completely.
 
I agree that it's down to luck..

The 7200.11 issue was NOT an accident and Seagate will have to either offer amazing bang/buck drives or build up a track record from scratch again.
 
Wino said:
I went to this link and downloaded the latest file, but how do I run/install it?
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It only works in Linux.

If you don't have a working linux system your best bet is to download a linux livecd that already has GNU ddrescue on it.
http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

The cd is bootable and does not install on your system.

It's not a bad idea to install Ubuntu to a spare hard drive and then just install gnu ddrescue, testdisk etc via the Synaptic package manager. At least you will have a GUI to navigate around as some people can get a bit overwhelmed by only using the command line as is the case with the above two live cds. It's always handy to have around incase windows goes belly up and you need to access the files, format drives, resize partitions, export registry etc. It's a very handy swiss army knife ;)
 
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